Archives - 27 May 2017, Saturday

Tesla gets all the attention lately when it comes to solar roofs , but start-up Forward Labs has been hammering away at their own solar roof technology – and not only is it 33% cheaper that Tesla’s offering, but it can be installed in half of the time. Forward Labs’ design blends righ...

LONDON – Levi Strauss, Kering, M&S and H&M are among 13 of the world's leading apparel brands which have signed a sustainable cotton pledge to use 100 per cent "sustainable cotton" by 2025. The pledge was the result of a meeting attended by HRH The Prince of Wales and organised by The...

The front and rear facades of the three-story home (previously the city’s Indian consulate) are clad in chestnut board panels, but the rest of the home wrapped in the stainless-steel wire lattice made of ceramic tiles . The home’s unique “screen” not only offers beautiful views of the...

Sailors cruising into San Diego Bay will now be met by the sophisticated new National City Aquatic Center . Designed by Safdie Rabines Architects , the elongated building sits embedded in the rocky coastline. The building will serve as a recreational and educational center for the com...

Thousands of visitors to a Mexico City park were treated to an eerie sight in the treetops last weekend. Giant ghostly animals heads peered down from the canopy, fixing their intense gaze on the public in an environmental video installation for Marvin Festival 2017 . Designed by studi...

For New Yorkers who aren’t able to make it out of the hot city this summer, a few off-grid retreats will be popping up in NYC. Starting this Memorial Day, tiny home startup Getaway will launch three of their compact cabins on the shoreline of the Gateway National Recreation Area. Geta...

, test subjects were assigned the opposing diets. Their blood was then pitted against cancer cells in a petri dish, in hopes of determining which diet resulted in blood that was more effective at suppressing cancer growth. The results found that the vegan blood (after maintaining a ye...

When he saw the Volkswagen hitting the guardrail, Kick pulled up next to the car and realized the driver was unconscious – it’s possible he experienced a stroke. So Kick pulled his Tesla in front of the Volkswagen and tapped the brakes until he could bring both cars to a halt. He was ...

Let me break this down for you: this video blurs the lines between the tortured animals onscreen and the eroticised woman. If the juxtaposition of images of shorn sheep and stripped Silverstone is not enough to convince you of this, the mask in the latter’s hand certainly should. The ...

“Our design offers a living dictionary of plants which are part of the natural heritage of South Korea and now, existing in the city center,” said Winy Maas of MVRDV. “The idea here is to connect city dwellers with nature, while at the same time also offering the opportunity of experi...

The film, which is the much-anticipated sequel to “Finding Nemo,” follows DeGeneres’ as she looks for her parents and learn more about her family. Last year at a comic book convention in Brazil, Pixar President Jim Morris revealed that Dory was born at the Marine Biology Institute of ...

countries on the planet, but the government is investing in green energy initiatives to offset that reputation. Now that Huainan is home to the world’s largest floating solar farm , it is likely to become a leader in renewable energy production.

As a society, we engage in a tremendous amount of wild-animal rescue, rehabilitation, and release. While our moral obligations to animals are negative in the sense that, in order to do right by them we simply have to refrain from using them as resources, it would be ludicrous to maint...

Perhaps the only silver lining behind the heinous situation going on at Standing Rock is the number of people flocking to North Dakota to support the water protectors. Not only are a group of US Veterans on their way to offer their assistance, but Matt Musselwhite, a carpenter and woo...

Eight spectacular tiny homes - inspired by local Welsh folklore and traditions - have been installed along the Wales countryside. The cabins represent the winning designs of the <a href="http://epicretreats.wales/">Epic Retreats</a> competition, which invited architects and designers ...

, test subjects were assigned the opposing diets. Their blood was then pitted against cancer cells in a petri dish, in hopes of determining which diet resulted in blood that was more effective at suppressing cancer growth. The results found that the vegan blood (after maintaining a ye...

When we think of <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/memorial-day/">Memorial Day</a>, we often think barbecues and pool parties as a way to kick off summer. Yet for many it's more a day of reflection for those they've lost. Memorial Day - called Decoration Day when it started - was born...

As presented in the drawing, I don't think it would work. The winds of the normal weather could easily mitigate the wind from the cars and small trucks. The wind from buses and simi trailer trucks would be more effective. I also think that a system as shown in the drawing would be VER...

Treasure Island lies in the middle of San Francisco Bay, visible to the left of the Bay Bridge as it crosses from San Francisco to Oakland. Abutting hilly Yerba Buena Island, Treasure Island is a man-made island and former naval base created in the 1930s from dredged bay mud and sand....

Humanity has turned Earth into a giant trash pile. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that Americans alone produce on average 4.3 pounds of trash each day. Multiplied by 318.9 million people, that’s a lot of trash landing up in the country’s landfills. If there are about 3,...

A brand new layout and addition transformed a post-war brick house in The Netherlands into a modern family home with a new connection to its natural surroundings. Kraal Architecten and Lab-S worked together on renovating the residence in Zeist, introducing a timber-clad extension that...

Wattaway began testing the new product last month on a kilometer-long site in the French town of Tourouvre. At 2,800 square meters in area, the embedded solar panel array is expected to generate about 280 kilowatts of energy at peak capacity. The company says that’s enough power to pr...